Guild Wars 2

Ok I’m not here to complain it’s too hard because I really like how hard arah is and wish all dungeons were this hard, however,

This just takes too long. We 1 shot every boss and were still in there for hours. granted this was the first time any of us had done path 4, but we didnt wipe once or die really at all. We got a little hung up on dwayna because:

The dwayna boss is poorly designed. We beat it by poisoning the area she was stealthing in and having the warriors swing at it while our 2 guardians got the sparks. This feels like cheating to me, a lot, but she heals too fast to make much of a dent otherwise.

There is no reason for this to be this long.

I personally feel like if they are going to be this long / difficult there should award 100 tokens a run instead of 60 at the very least.

can anyone from Anet confirm if this encounter is working as intended? sounds broken to me, especially the path finding of the sparks

i just spent 1 hour on this boss with the best people in my guild. we steamroll every other dungeon, every path. but not this one. The pathing is terrible, the boss heals way too fast, and the spark spots light up when they aren’t triggered (sometimes). It needs to be looked at, at the very least.

The spark part on path 4 is actually very simple. Gather all the sparks and just kite them around the statue until they all go into place. No need to get them into specific positions, just run around and they fall in.

My group entered this thinking it was impossible and left 15 minutes later victorious. Took us all of 15-20 seconds to do sparks by bunching up and running around in circles.

The problem with running in circles is that the sparks can get stuck on each other, or start attacking someone who is petrified and unfreezing them and then moving the spark takes enough time for the boss to heal up to full

I have never had sparks stick on eachother so idk what thats all about.

And idk if you haven’t noticed but you get a debuff on you for 10 seconds before you get petrified called “dead eye stare”.

The buff icon looks like this http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/8/89/Blinding_Flash.png

Once that buff expires you get petrified. It is really easy for a ranged person to go find a tear and get ready to throw it at the person in that 10 seconds.

THIS IS THE TACTICS FOR THIS ENCOUNTER:

So … you normaly dps the boss to 50% and when she goes stealth, 3 or 4 players from your group STILL attacking the spot where she gone stealth (in fact, she is still there and you are doing damage to her even when you cant see her) the rest pulls ONLY 4 of the sparks (ignore 1) into the statue (sometimes they dont fit in immidiately, you just need to wait for the boss to pop up, so dont worry about that). So first she will heal up only to 80% but as you continue further and do this several times, you will get her closer and closer to dead

BUT REMEMBER! You need to ATTACK THE BOSS even when shes STEALTHED… and also pull only 4 sparks, not 5!

This is how you do it

I’m really curious. Why 4 and not all 5? She unstealths only after you put in 5.

yea i’m curious how that work too. I thought she only comes out after 5 sparks get killed or when she reaches 100% life.

I understand from a friend you kill 4 sparks the first time after she hits 45% and let her heal to 100% so that the 2nd time you get her down to 45% you only need to kill 1 spark to get her out. This is however a once off to give you a bit more of a push